In our house, one of our favorite musicals to watch on DVD is The Music Man. Today when the mail came I started singing:
O-ho the Wells Fargo Wagon is a-comin' down the street,
Oh please let it be for me!
O-ho the Wells Fargo Wagon is a-comin' down the street,
I wish, I wish I knew what it could be!
I just love it when the mail comes and I have genealogy records to open and drool over! Today in the mail I received a report and documents (a marriage and death record, and a will) from another researcher in London (yes, England) and a check for my first article for Archives.com, that I'd almost forgotten about.
I used to wait for the mail hoping to receive letters from relatives, vital records from county courthouses in Michigan, and copies of obituaries from libraries all across the country. Now that I'm doing client research, I'm every bit as excited when I get a mailed (or emailed) response to a query I've sent out, providing vital information that can further my research, sometimes in very surprising ways.
These are just some of the items I'm waiting for:
O-ho the Wells Fargo Wagon is a-comin' down the street,
Oh please let it be for me!
O-ho the Wells Fargo Wagon is a-comin' down the street,
I wish, I wish I knew what it could be!
I just love it when the mail comes and I have genealogy records to open and drool over! Today in the mail I received a report and documents (a marriage and death record, and a will) from another researcher in London (yes, England) and a check for my first article for Archives.com, that I'd almost forgotten about.
I used to wait for the mail hoping to receive letters from relatives, vital records from county courthouses in Michigan, and copies of obituaries from libraries all across the country. Now that I'm doing client research, I'm every bit as excited when I get a mailed (or emailed) response to a query I've sent out, providing vital information that can further my research, sometimes in very surprising ways.
These are just some of the items I'm waiting for:
- Social Security application for a woman who was born in Austria and died in Connecticut - it'll reveal when and where she was born, and her parents' names
- Death certificate from Wisconsin, needed for a DAR application
- Civil War pension records for a man who was born in England, and fought in a Wisconsin infantry; I'm hoping it will reveal his exact place and date of birth, along with his date and place of marriage
- Microfilms of probate records from Fulton County, New York
- Interlibrary loan requests for two books of Alabama county histories
- Response to an email about retrieving a marriage record from Mexico
- Two birth records from London, England
- Death certificate from Oregon, needed to verify a maiden name, date and place of birth
- Microfilms of probate records from Eau Claire, Wisconsin
- Response to an email about naturalization records in Connecticut
- Death certificate/probate records from Manistee County, Michigan
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